Mick Wilson is an artist, educator and researcher based in Sweden and
Belgium. He is currently Professor of Art at Gothenburg University, and
Fellow at BAK, basis voor aktuele kunst, Utrecht (2018/2019). He was
previously head of Valand Academy, Sweden (2012-2018) and founder
Dean of GradCAM, Ireland (2008-2012). Co-edited volumes include
(with Paul O’Neill et al.) Curating and the Educational Turn (2010);
Curating and Research (2014); The Curatorial Conundrum (2016); How
Institutions Think (2017); and (with S.v.Ruten) SHARE Handbook (2013);
and (with G. Zachia et al.) Public Enquiries (2018). His research interests
include questions of how collaborative research practice emerges from the
contemporary art field; the question of critical educational infrastructures in
the context of segregated cities; the question of political imaginaries within,
and beyond, the contemporary art field; and the specific question of political
community with the dead in colonial-modernity, which is the topic of his
research project at BAK in 2018-2019.